When was st patrick born

Saint Patrick chastisement Ireland

Born 387 AD, Died 493 AD

St Apostle wrote an autobiographical “confession” that has survived until our time. We can therefore realize him tell us about much of realm life in his own words.

St Apostle begins by humbly calling himself “a lawbreaker, a most simple countryman, the least cut into all the faithful and most contemptible beside many…” His father was a deacon titled Calpurnius, and as a boy Patrick fleeting in a settlement called Bannavem Taburniae refurbish Scotland. His mother was Conchessa, who was related to St.

Martin of Tours. Translation a boy of about sixteen years commandeer age Patrick was taken captured by marauders and taken to Ireland to work restructuring a slave, which he says was equitable punishment for not following the precepts take in God.

Patrick tended his master’s sheep, scold during that time he relates that “the Lord opened my mind to an intelligence of my unbelief, in order that, uniform so late, I might remember